Box for containing tooth-powder.



Nd. 758,309. PATENTED 26,1904.

M. H. FLETGHBR.

BOX FDR GONTAINING TOOTH POWDER.

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UNITED STATES Patented A ril 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

MORDEO AI H. FLETCHER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

I p v I I BOX FOR CONTAINING TOOTH-POWDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,309, dated April26, 1904. Application liled $eptemher 18, 1903; Serial No. 1'73 ,699.(No model.)

To aIZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, MoRnnoAI H. FLETCHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio,have invented new and useful Improvements in Boxes for Containing Tooth-Powder, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to boxes for holding and out of which may be takentooth-powder, face-powder, or the like material to be used in smallquantities upon occasion, its object being to provide a package thatshall be perfectly secure and tight against leakage and protect thecontents from moisture, at the same time provided with means convenientof operation for discharging small quantities as required from time totime.

In a previous patent granted to me I describe a package consisting of acylindrical boX hav ing a suitably-perforated cover with a concentricregisterwalve operating in connection therewith and having anintervening pad or disk of materialsuch, for example, as blotting-paper,cloth, &c.attached to the inside of the cover and correspondinglyperforated,

over which the disk valve or register-plate was rotated. In thepractical working of this device a difficulty has been experienced inscour ing the packing-pad against rotation. under the pressure andfriction of the rotating valve, so that at times a partial rotation ofthe pad carries the pad out of register with the aperture of the coverand of the valve, thus disarranging the parts and preventing the properoperation of the valve.

My present invention for this condition; and it consists in a sheetpacking interposed looselythat is, without being cemented or otherwisefastened to the coverand a valve provided with catch-points which engagethe sheet packing and rotate it with the valve, with its aperture inconstant registering relation with the valve and brought intoregistering relation with the aperture of the cover only as the valve isbrought into such relation.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichvFigure 1 is an axial section, in elevation, of

furnishes a remedy the part of the box containing my improve ment. Figs.2, 3, and 4 are under plan views of the register-valve, packing-disk,and boxcover, respectively; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the valve,showing the preferred arrangement of the catch-points for engaging thepacking-disk; and Fig. 6, a detail section of the valve andpacking-disk, showing the mode in which the catch-points of the valveare embedded in the packing-disk in use.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the cylindrical box orpackage, (shown partially in Fig. 1,) and B thecylindrical cover fittingover one end of the box. outside.

The cover B is pierced centrally, as at 0, for the admission of thecylindrical shank or stem 6 of the knob E, attached to the disk valve,presently to be described, and also perforated, as at O, at one side ofthe central perforation' 0 for the discharge of the contents uponoccasion, Fig. 4.

Immediately within and adjacent to the inner side of the cover is placeda cylindrical pad C, fitting just within the cylindrical wall of thecover circumferentially and perforated correspondingly with the top ofthe cover B, Fig. 3. Adjacent to the pad is placed a disk valve I) ofthe same diameter as the pad and also correspondingly perforated atO 0'Fig. 2.

The disk valve D is also provided at radial intervals with tongues (Z,punched from its own material and thrown out on one side at more of thecontents from spilling out or any foreign substance from entering thepackage. I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States In a package of the character indicated, thecombination of the centrally-perforated cover, centrally-perforatedpacking-disk, centrallyperforated valve-disk With tongues thrown out onone side at opposite angles and adapted to rotatively engage the pad, incombination with a spindle having a terminal knob and shoulder, andinserted through the box-cover, the packing-disk and the valve-disk, andsecured to the latter, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit- I0 nesses.

MORDEOAI H. FLETCHER.

Witnesses:

KATHERINE E. PRICE, JOSEPH R. GARDNER.

